Darwin’s Finches
The Sciku Project,
islands divergingbeaks for seeds and bugs and bloodletters…
islands divergingbeaks for seeds and bugs and bloodletters…
Oh my.
“Living things do not inherit skulls, backbones, or cell layers from their ancestors—they inherit the processes to build them.” …
Am 27. Dezember 1831 beginnt Charles Darwin (22) seine Weltreise mit dem Forschungs-und Vermessungsschiff HMS1 Beagle. Die…
Two groups of birds, Darwin’s finches and Birds-of-Paradise are historically and respectively associated with the discoverers…
Recently two of my Lehigh University Department of Biological Sciences colleagues published a seven-page critical review of…
How a simple pleasure, feeding birds, has been translated into a mechanism for rapid evolutionary change in beak length in a…
Epigenetics may be how Darwin’s finches rapidly change their beak size and shape in response to sudden environmental changes…
Taxonomy goes online in the 21st century Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was developed in large part…
In a 2006 paper in Science, Peter and Rosemary Grant provided evidence that demonstrated a character displacement event in a…
Health and…
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7539/full/nature14181.html Just like beach and creek spawners . . .
Pictures showing the gradual transition of an ape-like creature to a human one are part of the cultural Gestalt. They are so…
Interbreeding and HybridizationForty years ago biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant began an ongoing study of the different…
Once again we have the chance to let the MA students present a critical reading of a new paper. In this case the show is run by…
Plants and…
ALX1基因塑造鸟嘴不同形状。图片来源:JPTENOR/ALAMY1835年,当英国皇家海军舰艇比格
As a means of motivating his interest in speciation, in The Origin of Species Charles Darwin highlighted the diversity of…
The major finding in the Nature article to which Casey Luskin referred earlier -- "widespread evidence of interspecific gene…
Decades ago researchers Peter and Rosemarie Grant conducted painstaking research on finches in the Galápagos Islands. They…
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В Science и Nature на этой неделе. Science #347(6223): секреты зубной э
达尔文雀(Darwin's finches)是指一群生活在加拉帕戈斯群岛和科科斯群岛的近缘雀
He did it all for the finches (and their beaks).Here's wishing everyone a Happy Darwin Day for 2015 (Darwin's 206th posthumous…
Darwin’s finches, also known as the Galápagos finches, constitute an iconic model for studies of speciation and adaptive…
Plants and…